Tuesday, May 31, 2011

CBS Sports Network, as part of its Alt Games programming, will offer coverage of both divisions' finals (originally completed on Monday, May 31, 2011). Other sports to be featured: skateboarding, wakeboarding, flowboarding, beach volleyball. [Updated 6/23]

Monday, May 23, 2011

Crossing your arms across the middle of your body confuses the brain and helps reduce the intensity of pain, according to research published on Friday.

Scientists from University College London (UCL) who reported the finding in the journal Pain said they think the reason for the phenomenon is conflicting information between two of the brain's maps -- one for the body and one for external space.

"In everyday life you mostly use your left hand to touch things on the left side of the world, and your right hand for the right side of the world," Giandomenico Iannetti of UCL's department of physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience, said in a statement about the research.

He said this means the brain areas that hold the map of the right body and the map of right external space are usually activated together, leading to very effective pain processing.

"When you cross your arms these maps are not activated together anymore," he said, leading to less effective processing meaning that stimuli such as pain can perceived as weaker.

"Perhaps when we get hurt, we should not only 'rub it better' but also cross our arms," Iannetti said.

The researchers hope their discovery could lead to the development of new drugs and therapies to reduce pain that exploit the brain's way of mapping the body.

:Game 2: In a reversal of the first game, the other team started 5:1, but scored the first point. The youthful It's Biz Time took care of business to halftime, leading 1-8 (ahem, still playing 5:1).

Sludge regrouped to rapturetchet up the veteran defense and dictate pace. At 5-8, Sludge gained a moral victory "forcing" IBT to play 5:2(!). CHarlie disciplined the youngins with some timely interceptions as MicHael chased Down one in the endzone corner.

The 10-point 2nd half was certainly a bright spot; cheering up brown's spirits as much as saleskids at the lemonade stand. Loss 11-13 (capped).

:Game 4:In the most anticipated game of the day, the next game was with pickupy friends KarmaKaze. Brown controlled the initial game pace - a fairly similar pace Sludge took in finding shade during the bye between their 3rd & 4th games.

Monday, May 16, 2011

This disc is from a first mold [WPP1] of the Pluto Platter with "Wham-O" imprinted (small) once on the front of the disc plus all the (known and accepted at that time) planets around the rim. The unique story behind this disc is that Wham-O gave Fred Morrison a number of discs as part of their deal. Fred then turned around and put his own sticker on the underside of the disc and gave them away or sold them.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Sludge was fashionably late in arriving, and the other team, despite fairly low numbers themselves, was eager to play. By the time everyone arrived, both teams had lots of women (Sludge had 5!), so it was agreed to play most of the game 4:3.

The first point, in contrast to last game, was a marathon. Each team choked on numerous goal-line attempts. Sludge eventually took the point, along with several others, en route to an 8-3 halftime lead.

Sludge also scored the first point in the second half before going into what has become our typical second-half slowdown. Absinthe didn't Mind to capitalize on brown mistakes as they mounted a slow-but-steady comeback.

Friday, May 06, 2011

While it hardly could be called a major medical problem, a doctor says tossing the popular plastics discs can cause an abrasion on the middle finger of the throwing hand. The bothersome, but easily malady is Frisbee finger.

“We have found that Frisbee finger has a higher rate among city dwellers,” the authors [a doctor & medical student] say, because constant use of the Frisbee on hard surfaces (such as concrete) produces jagged edges, which intensify and facilitate the abrasive action on the middle finger.

“The syndrome does occur with overuse of smooth-edged Frisbees as well, however, and should not be ruled out in subjects in more rural settings.”...

The best treatment for Frisbee finger is abstinence, they say, since continued use of a Frisbee will rip off a bandage and irritate the skin.

A spokesman for [WHAM-O] said the company was aware that the plastic discs could get rough edges with wear.

Thursday, May 05, 2011

After 4 weeks of rainouts, you’d figure Sludge’s defense AND offense would be a bit rusty. Well, Brian quickly oiled BOTH by scoring a Callahan on the very first point!

Besides point #1 gimme, it was a back-&-forth game versus Backhand’d Compliment. 1-0, 2-2, 2-3, 4-4. Jen & Sarah (playing savage) made great cuts as Nigel actively caught scores. Andrew and CHarlie were both in-game rehabbing, and also kept the O going.

The O flow was generally scattered tho Sludge kept their offense close to the sidelines. Sludge consistently wasted a more than few O ops close to the end zone by some high-count tosses & bcs-of-wind throwaways. This was a time to catch up (socially), but Joe casually reminded brown “Less talking, more running.” True, game pace was set at PICKUP with Sludge +1 at half.

The defense was more like a chain link fence with gaping holes the size of passing lanes. Sludge’s D seemed to have found ‘religion’ on Saturday, that’s why its Zone was so “holey”. Granted, the experienced BH’dC shredded Sludge’s zone; their turnovers were typically unforced errors.

Toward the end of the game, Sludge exceeded the 12-point mark (YEAH!), 13-11. Whoever was less injured played the next few points and finding the end zone 2 more times. Win 15-12.